Changed hud color, everything is AS good as its gonna get i suspect, its very playable and amazing. I dont have Nvidia, i have 2 x 280X in crossfire.... wondering if i should wait for the 300 series or upgrade to 2 x 290X's now while theyre a pretty good deal.
The only thing ive not done yet is unpark the cores on my i7 4770K .... is it worth doing?
AMD have said that they will anounce their 300 line-up early june. So I wouldn't make any decissions before that. My only issue with the 300 series is that it is another 28nm chip. So heat could be an issue again even though the HBM memory should aleviate some of the heat production. So in your case I'd probably hold out for a 3rd party vendor like ASUS, SAPPHIRE, etc. to come up with a better cooling solution. Even though most rumours currently talk of water cooling for the stock AMD card. I still expect 3rd parties to do an even better job.
I heard rumours that a VR specific card would come out with two GPU's on it (comparable to the 285) where each gpu would render one eye using the
AMD Liquid VR technology. I currently have a 290x card by SAPPHIRE so I am holding out for a 400 series card as that will be on 14nm FinFET and possibly HBM2 memory (more than 4GB addressable as I currently understand from the recent AMD presentations). That would mean:
- more performance / definately VR capable on high performance
- Even less heat production
- more memory for future performance
Unparking cores sounds like it is save enough to try but with E: D I don't expect it to get you much. Most of the time CPU's aren't bottlenecking with E: D. This might be different for other applications and future Win10+DX12 applications though so give it a try and let us know what it does for you.
Likewise with others SweetFX is a must, don't use nVidia DSMR setting and if you haven't done so yet, change the HUD colour - you will be glad you did.
